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If you are diabetic and fail to control your blood glucose levels, you will most likely end up with several debilitating health problems such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, diabetic neuropathy, digestive problems, blindness, or a variety of infections.

Many of these conditions could kill you.

So taking diabetic drugs to manage your Type II diabetes might seem like the right thing to do.

High blood sugar levels are not the same as diabetes. They are only signs or symptoms of diabetes but they are not the disease itself. The problem is: diabetes drugs target blood sugar levels only… they do not treat diabetes. But very few people die of high blood sugar in their blood.

However they do die of the damage caused by diabetes: heart disease, strokes, kidney disease and raging infections… and diabetes drugs do nothing for them.

The study examined nine classes of diabetes drugs, including insulin, comparing the drugs to a placebo. The researchers reviewed more than 300 randomized clinical trials covering nearly 120,000 patients before reaching their conclusions.

Dangers of Diabetes Drugs

Drugs for diabetes are have serious side effects.

These include cardiovascular reactions, flu-like symptoms and dizziness. They have been linked to muscle and stomach pain, diarrhea and anemia. In addition, if diabetics are not careful, these drugs can cause dangerously low blood glucose levels.

The bad thing is that many patients take two or even three of these drugs at the same time, all prescribed by their doctor .

Can you Reverse Your Diabetes Without Diabetic Drugs?

The fact is that some people believe there is no need, unless your diabetes is far advanced, to use these drugs at all. They believe can reverse your diabetes using diet alone, perhaps with a little extra exercise thrown in.

There is no cure for diabetes, IE once you have it well you have it. But when I say you can reverse your diabetes, What I mean is you can beat the awful consequences the disease brings such as the cardiovascular problems, strokes, kidney disease and so on.

The beating-diabetes diet is simple. It requires a small amount of discipline.

You can reverse type 2 diabetes by eating foods that are :

(1) low in sugar
(2) low in fat
(3) low in salt,
(4) high in fiber and that
(5) are digested slowly.

The easiest way to do this is by concentrating on natural, unprocessed foods that are mostly plants. You also need to avoid all dairy products and eggs, and to drink plenty of water.

The fundamental cause of type 2 diabetes is fat blocking the receptors in your muscle cells, leaving glucose (produced by the digestive process) and insulin (produced by the pancreas) swirling around in your bloodstream. This condition is called insulin resistance.

The diet works because it minimizes your intake of fat so that, after a month or so, the fat blocking the receptors in your muscle cells will have disappeared. This fat is normally in your midsection.

Unblocking the receptors ensures that the insulin can do its job of opening those receptors to get the glucose out of your bloodstream and into cells, thus ‘reversing’ your diabetes.

As well you should also take up some mild exercise, such as walking, gardening, swimming, dancing , etc. This will help stimulate your muscle cells to use the energy (glucose) floating around in your blood stream.

Also, you can give the reversing-diabetes diet a boost in several ways using various supplements:

You can get sufficient vitamin D3 by getting outside for just 10 minutes or so a day in the midday sun… with a lot of skin showing which might be a little rough in the winter but thank god there are supplements

You could also get plenty of vitamin D by eating oily fish (tuna, sardines, mackerel and salmon), free-range eggs, grass-fed beef, liver and dairy products. But these foods contain copious amounts of fats which you need to minimize if you are to reverse your diabetes.

For diabetics, therefore, the best way to get sufficient vitamin D3New Price: (as of 10/16/2017 17:58 America/New_York) is to take a supplement. The recommended dosage is 8,000 IU’s (international units) a day.

Guava

The leaves, stems and flesh (but not the skins) of the tropical guava fruit block the digestion of carbohydrates which reduces spikes in blood glucose. Consuming pealed guava also makes the development of insulin resistance less likely and helps improve the blood sugar levels of diabetics.

If fresh guava is available in your locality you should eat it daily. If not, you can get guava teaNew Price: (as of 10/16/2017 17:58 America/New_York) made from dried leaves at your local health food store or online. A cup a day (or more) is highly recommended.

Vanadium

VanadiumNew Price: (as of 10/16/2017 17:58 America/New_York) is a trace mineral that acts like insulin.

Vanadium reduces spikes in blood glucose and insulin levels by helping to move blood glucose into muscle cells and by inhibiting the absorption of glucose from the gut.

In a study described in Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures,New Price: (as of 10/16/2017 17:58 America/New_York) a book published in 1994, diabetics took daily supplements of vanadium… their average blood glucose levels dropped by 10% in only three weeks.

You can use vanadium by taking it as a supplement… 500 mcg three times a day… but:

In the 1980s, Chinese doctors discovered that berberine can normalize blood glucose levels. It does this by decreasing insulin resistance, by decreasing the production of sugar in the liver, and by increasing the ability to breakdown glucose inside cells.

To lower the levels of sugar in your blood, you should take a supplement… one 500 mg capsule with meals two or three times a day.

Caution: I am not a medical doctor and my strong advice is that you consult your doctor before you stop taking your prescribed diabetes medications.

I do believe though that you are your best advocate and doing your own research and trying to stay off diabetes medications by improving your diet and by exercise is worth a shot. In my case my doctor agreed with this approach and I have thus far avoided taking diabetic medications to control my insulin levels

This article is based on an article by Paul D Kennedy

Paul D Kennedy is a type 2 diabetic. He used his skills as an international consultant and researcher to find a way to control his diabetes using diet alone and, about seven years ago, he stopped taking medications to control his blood glucose levels. His book, Beating Diabetes, How to Defeat type II Diabetes is available from Amazon.